“An End to Antisemitism!” – University of Vienna in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress, New York University and Tel Aviv University

Sunday, 18 February until Thursday, 22 February 2018
Campus of the University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Spitalgasse 2

Not only research on antisemitism, but also the prevention of hatred of Jews, now and in the future, are the goals of the international conference “An End to Antisemitism!” which will take place at the University of Vienna from 18-22 February. Highly recognized experts from all over the world, including many renowned political and religious decision makers will discuss the complex phenomenon of antisemitism.

My lectures:

Monday, February 19 at 10:25 AM: “Scrolls, Testament and Talmud: Issues of Anti-Semitism in the Study of Ancient Judaism”

This interview with Eve Harow covers such diverse topics as the Essenes, calendar controversies, the history and future of Scrolls scholarship, Jewish-Christian relations and the historic Jesus.

Here’s the blurb:

Professor Lawrence Schiffman is one of the world’s experts on the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th Century, the Dead Sea Scrolls. He spoke with Eve last week in Birmingham in the United Kingdom at the annual Limmud UK conference where he had standing room only audiences in his fascinating lectures. Listen in to their lively conversation on Pharisees and Sadducces, Essenes, the Talmud, Christianity, anti-Semitism, modern contacts between Jews and Catholics and so much more. A brilliant man with tremendous knowledge and experience on many and varied topics.

DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBIT CANCELED IN FRANKFURT OUT OF CONCERN THAT THEY MIGHT BELONG TO THE PALESTINIANS

Imagine the ridiculousness of this: The Palestinians claim that the Jews have no historical connection to Eretz Yisrael, Yerushalayim or the Har Habayis. Nevertheless, they still wish to claim that they are the rightful owners of the Dead Sea Scrolls. In other words, there were never any Jews there—but we want their scrolls anyway! It is this claim, already made during the negotiations leading up to the Oslo Accords in 1993, which caused the recent cancelation of a long-planned exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Frankfurt Bible Museum. Like the almost two dozen other Dead Sea Scrolls exhibits that have been held throughout the world, this latest one was to take place in close cooperation with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).